On 2010-09-05 05:47, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think it would be very useful to package up some of the handy loaders for Debian. I for one am planning on making a package for the libdir loader. The big question is how to package them. Should they be packaged up like a normal library? It would be nice if there was some kind of mechanism for having Pd automatically load the installed loaders if they are in a given folder. Something like /etc/apache/sites-enabled.
i think the puredata package in debian should follow the pd-vanilla package as closely as possible [*]. adding functionality for an autoloaded directory is definitely something that is beyond that (imho).
so i'd say: get the autoload-directory stuff into upstream.
in the meantime, loaders should be loaded like any other libraries (which they are).
if autoload-directory makes it into upstream, we can start talking about putting loaders into that. personally i think it's a bad idea (and i would probably not want to use that package myself then)
please remember that no package installs anything directly into /etc/apache/sites-enabled, it's the user who puts their configuration into it.
fgmasdr IOhannes
[*] if you package pd-extended for debian, then you are of course free to apply whatever patches you want to...